Pine Creek is in Victoria Daly LGA, NT, postcode 0847, with population 318.
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Evidence depth is verify-heavy, so the profile should be treated as provisional. The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Price series isn't recorded for this suburb. Census housing data is shown instead.
45% of homes here are owner-occupied and 48% rented.
48% rented — renter-heavy areas turn over faster and are more exposed to rate moves and investor sentiment. Social housing is 28% of dwellings — check tenant mix and resale demand.
ABS Census 2021 tenure (G37), ATO postcode rental statistics, and QuickProperty's investor-exposure index. Owner-occupied = owned outright + with a mortgage.
This suburb 11% · NT median 13%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 86% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $1,083/mo, while renters pay about $520/mo — owning runs $563/mo higher on these medians.
At the median asking rent, about 6% of households here would spend more than 30% of income on rent (rent stress line: $400/wk income).
Getting to work: 52% drive, 0% public transport, 36% walk or cycle, 4% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Daly SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Located in Northern Territory within the Victoria Daly local government area, Pine Creek is a sparsely populated locality (postcode 0847). With a population of 318, the suburb has a mix of families and early-career residents with a median age of 36. Households earn a median income of $59K per year, with an average household size of 2.5 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +1.0% year-on-year at the LGA level. NT employment has moved +2.0% year-on-year in the official ABS Labour Force trend series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. NT also had 4 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 3 underway, and 4 in planning as at 2025-09-01, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are managers, technicians & trades, professionals. Employment in the area leans toward accommodation & food and public admin & safety. The top ancestries reported are Aboriginal Australian, English, Australian.
The median weekly rent is $120 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,083.
Pine Creek is served by 1 school, including 1 combined. The average ICSEA score is 683, which is well below the national average of 1,000.
From an investment perspective, Population growth of +1.0% year-on-year points to stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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Official annual SA2 price series matched to suburb pages as fallback coverage
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Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
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Pine Creek is in the Victoria Daly Local Government Area, NT, postcode 0847. Council-level context for Victoria Daly LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Pine Creek is $120/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Pine Creek show: Stable, Steady. These are computed from price, rent, income, and population data — not an opaque score.
Property prices come from state Valuers General offices and ABS Data by Region. Demographics are from ABS Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA. Crime statistics are from state police agencies. Transport data is sourced from GTFS feeds.
Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.